Some sixty mathematicians, historians and others interested in the life and work of Godfrey Harold Hardy - once Sadleirian Professor of Pure Mathematics in the University of Cambridge - met at Sydney University on December 1-2, 1997 at a meeting sponsored by the Society, the School of Mathematics and the Vice-Chancellor of Sydney University, the Centre for Number Theory Research at Macquarie University and the School of mathematics at the University of New South Wales.
There were talks by Robert Rankin (emeritus Professor of Mathematics in the University of Glasgow, and a former student of Hardy), "Hardy's students, his family and other related matters"; Bob Vaughan (IC, London and U Michigan, Ann Arbor), "Hardy's legacy to number theory"; Roy MacLeod (Professor of History, Sydney University); "Hardy: the man and his milieu"; Russell Love (emeritus Professor of Mathematics in the University of Melbourne, and once 'proofreader' for the 7th edition of Hardy's A Course of Pure Mathematics/ ), "A reminiscence of Hardy"; John Sved (School of Biological Sciences, Sydney University), "Hardy and population genetics"; Gavin Brown (Vice-Chancellor, Sydney University), "Hardy and Fourier analysis"; Ivor Grattan-Guinness (Professor of the History of Mathematics and Logic, Middlesex University), "G H Hardy on set theory and philosophy of mathematics"; George Andrews (Penn State), "The rebirth of MacMahon's partition analysis"; Bernhard Neumann (emeritus Professor of Mathematics in the Institute of Advanced Studies, ANU) "Hardy - some reminiscences"; and brief contributions from Rodney Baxter (ANU); Jilyana Cazaran (Tasmania); George Szekeres (UNSW); Don Handley (Swinburne); and Nalini Joshi (Adelaide).
Our object, to talk about Hardy and his work, and to benefit from the reminiscences of some of Hardy's 'contemporaries', was amply achieved in a meeting that provided all of the pleasures of learned meeting, reunion and social occasion.
John Mack and Alf van der Poorten
on behalf of the Organising Committee